Posted by Steven on July 07, 1999 at 22:14:58:
In Reply to: Re: A game? posted by Cari on July 07, 1999 at 15:46:26:
: : I tried the game idea earlier (at a couple of people's suggestion), but got almost no response.
: : My question was:
: : What do these 3 words have in common?
: : devious
: : compulsive
: : libelous
: : Jen answered "The National Enquirer" (very cute), but of course the answer is much more definitive than that.
: I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but these are the similarities that I see:
: 1. Each word has 3 syllables, and
: 2. Each word contains the letters I, E, O, U, and S.
Close.
The notable link is in vowel usage.
None of the words contain the vowel A,
but all contain one each of the vowels E, I, O, and U.